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Women in the Captaincy of Paraíba: a Legal History Approach to the Sources of Colonial Brazil

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2021 , 209-235 S.

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Einrichtung: Ariadne | Wien
Verfasst von: Silva, Luisa Stella Oliveira Coutinho de info
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Jahr: 2021
ISBN: 3848770962
Sprache: Englisch
Beschreibung:
This chapter lays the groundwork for a legal history perspective for the history of women in colonial Paraíba, a captaincy of the Portuguese Empire in Northeast Brazil, based on an analysis of normativities. Using documents about women in colonial Paraíba sourced from Portuguese and Brazilian archives from the sixteenth century until the early nineteenth century, I question the mainstream understanding of women in the colonial period by arguing that there were many differences among women. I demonstrate that women in colonial Paraíba were far from static categorizations and prove that women’s legal history in colonial Brazil cannot be understood without connecting gender, religion, condition and status.
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